Internet Explorer 7.0

Posted March 4, 2005

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This past month, Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing version 7.0.

This new release will not coincide with the release of Longhorn scheduled for next year sometime. Originally, Microsoft swore that they would only have new browser releases with the OS, but now seems to be going back on it’s policy.

I think that most designs could care less. IE is ok, but doesn’t have some of the new age ideas that some of the newer, better browsers have. Firefox has integrated term searching, color coded and formatted HTML code, and tabbed browsing. Microsoft hasn’t done anything major to Internet Explorer for a couple of versions now.

The design community also cringes as MS says that it is going to continue with the security updates it started in IE with Service Pack 2 (SP2). We think of a browser that isn’t any better, and is rushed to release, which is supposed to be sometime this summer.

But I will say this. For those who swear up and down to Firefox, the main reason that it is so big, is because it isn’t that big. Microsoft is huge, and is that much more prevalent. If that was the case with Firefox, those developers would be working night and day to try to stay one step ahead of the hackers.

March 15th, 2005

A little bit of a follow up to this article.

Here are some of the features that are speculated in being included in IE 7.0.

March 17th, 2005

Another follow up to this article, here is a IEBlog posting by the lead program manager for IE 7.0 at Microsoft, Chris Wilson. He is calling on all web designers to voice what they would like to see fixed in the newest release of Internet Explorer and to be specific. Want to voice you opinion? Well, head on over to Microsoft and tell them what you want to see fixed or implemented in IE 7.0.